Ezra Collective are back with Here Because of Hope, a fourth album that traces the movement of Black music from West Africa and the Caribbean to Britain — and turns that journey into one of the band’s most expansive records yet. Released today via Partisan Records, the album arrives with focus track “El Corazón” and a new live film, “Rehearsal Tapes”, capturing the collective energy that has helped take Ezra Collective from London’s grassroots jazz scene to some of the bigges

feeble little horse are keeping things moving. Following the surprise release of their acclaimed third album bitknot in May, the Pittsburgh noise-pop outfit have announced a limited-edition animated zoetrope vinyl, a second London date after their first show sold out, and their first-ever trip to Japan. The new zoetrope pressing gives bitknot a suitably strange physical edition, with zoetrope expert Drew Tetz bringing Lydia Slocum’s album artwork to life across the record. It

London experimental five-piece Drum Tower have arrived with debut single ‘Junkyard’, a chaotic, clattering introduction to a band determined to make the strange sound infectious. Pulling together post-punk, math rock, psychedelia and electronic textures, the band’s first recorded statement is packed with sharp guitar lines, restless rhythms, multiple vocalists and trombone. Produced by Louis Milburn, the track has been described as sounding like a mutant disco unfolding on a

JHart is done looking backwards. The GRAMMY-winning songwriter and seven-time Billboard No. 1 hitmaker has announced his new EP, The Full Fantasy, landing October 16 via 10K Projects, alongside its playful, polished title track. Following the vulnerability of previous singles “Memories” and “Bby Blue”, “Full Fantasy” takes a different route — leaning into curiosity, confidence and the thrill of letting something unfold without worrying too much about where it is going. It is